A practical, privacy-first path from searchable PDFs to local retrieval: extract text, measure full-text search, add OCR or embeddings only when the evidence says you need them, and keep every result tied to its source.
A practical, privacy-first path from searchable PDFs to local retrieval: extract text, measure full-text search, add OCR or embeddings only when the evidence says you need them, and keep every result tied to its source.